Stretching

50 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Stretching
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
The Changing and Enlarging Card
Related to 1897
New Era Card Tricks
230
Jean Hugard Enlarging and Diminishing Cards using a stripper deck
VariationsAlso published here
  • in "Magic Mirror" November, 1911
 Jan. 1950
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 8)
617
Karl Fulves It Stretches card is shown to be extra long, spectator can push it through deck, using wax gimmick
Related toVariations 1971
The Book of Numbers
30
Karl Fulves It Stretches tip
Inspired by 1971
The Book of Numbers — Supplementary Notes
15
Roy Walton Stretching a Point
Inspired by
  • Peter Kane's "Elongated Lady"
Also published here 		1975
Some Late Extra Card Tricks
10
Jon Racherbaumer, Gene Castillon, Marvin Johnson The Lady Stretches including:
  • Handling Notes
  • Alternate Handling to Show the Backs at Step 2
  • The Marvin Johnson Variation
  • The Portable Fake Version (Racherbaumer)
 		1976
Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 1)
5
Nick Trost Expanding Cards Fan of mini cards grow into large cards
Also published here 1976
Subtle Card Magic — Part Two
29
Bob Farmer, Bill Simon Twisting, Turning, Extending and Otherwise Molesting the Aces card is stretched, then one by one reverses
 		May 1978
Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 9)
572
Karl Fulves Drink This
Inspired by 1979
Shape Changers
19
Karl Fulves Stretch Ref
1979
Shape Changers
44
Fred Lowe Die Teleskopkarte spectator selects Eight of Hearts, Ace prediction is pulled long until there are eight pips, gag card
 		Aug. 1980
Intermagic (Vol. 7 No. 2)
58
Paul Harris The Incredible Shrinking Hand hand shrinks when trying to palm card (actually card is stretched), palmed card switched for two previous selections from deck
 		1981
Close-up Fantasies Finalé
61
Roy Walton Stretching a Point
Also published here 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
153
Don England Two Impromptu "Stretches"
Variations Dec. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 12)
713
Peter Kane The Elongated Lady
Variations 1982
Kane
40
Ken Krenzel, Richard Kaufman, Derek Dingle Plastic Man gaffed
Variations Winter 1982/1983
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 1 No. Winter Extra)
36
Paul Harris Bizarre Stretch
1983
A Close-Up Kinda Guy
109
Stephen Tucker Card Olympics reverse of cards and card is stretched, packet trick
 		Oct. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 30)
577
Peter Kane Sally "The Amazing Elasticated Lady" (for long)
stretching Queen to almost five inch long card
  • The Visible Stretch
 		1984 ca.
Sally For Short!
1
Peter Kane Almost Triumphant incomplete face-up/face-down shuffle, halves stripped apart, selection is sticking out and seen to be five inches long when pulled out
Also published here 1984 ca.
Sally For Short!
3
Peter Kane Rising Higher selection rises from deck, then is pulled out and seen to be extra-long card
 		1984 ca.
Sally For Short!
5
Jerry K. Hartman Apocalypse Variations or Additions
Inspired by Mar. 1985
Apocalypse (Vol. 8 No. 3)
1043
Philip T. Goldstein Rackjobber
1985
FISM Madrid 1985
4
Don England Long and Lean Card is streched
 		1985/93
Don England's Gaffed to the Hilt!
29
Jon Racherbaumer, Richard Kaufman Plastic Lady I card is streched sideways
Related to 1985/93
Don England's Gaffed to the Hilt!
43
Don England Plastic Lady II card is streched both ways
Variations 1985/93
Don England's Gaffed to the Hilt!
49
Thomas Hierling Impromptu Rubberman ungaffed
Inspired by 1987
New Wave Close-Up
107
Karl Fulves Jumbo card rises up, when pushed down it turns out that it is longer than the deck, posed as problem
 		1988
Interlocutor (Issue 50)
230
Shigeru Sugawara Accordion Card jumbo card is placed inside plastic case, shrinks and then enlarges again to normal size
 		1990
A Joint Collection of Works by Tenkai Prize Winners
27
Karl Fulves Stretch Note card stretches between two halves of the deck
 		1991
Pull Apart Notes
6
Don England Plastic Lady card stretches between two other cards lengthwise and sideways, then shrinks
Inspired byVariations 1991
Plastic Lady
1
Kuniyasu Fujiwara The Card Machine
1992
Five Times Five — Japan
67
Peter Kane Almost Triumphant incomplete face-up/face-down shuffle, halves stripped apart, selection is sticking out and seen to be five inches long when pulled out
Also published here 1992
One Card Wonders
15
Karl Fulves Packed taking long cards from a normal case, posed as problem
Inspired by 1993
Verbatim (Issue 5)
40
Aldo Colombini The Rubber Illusion card stretches between two other cards, then shrinks
Inspired by 1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
143
Aldo Colombini The Rubber Illusion card stretches between two other cards, then shrinks
Inspired by 1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
143
Doug Conn Plastic Surgery monte type routine with Bizarre Twist, stretching and shrinking
Inspired byRelated to 1995
MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 7)
1
Paul Harris The Bizarre Stretch
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Misc. Pieces of Paul)
285
Karl Fulves Tall Tale chosen card rises out of deck and becomes long card
 		1996
New Card Rises
34
Lou Gallo Chemical Cards two cards are stretched
 		1996
Lou Gallo: The Underground Man
62
Wesley James Two-Way Stretch card also stretched sideways
Related to 1997
The Magical Record and Thoughts of Wesley James
49
Doug Conn Quadruple Bypass sandwich effect, center card penetrates à la Close-up Illusion, it stretches and finally shrinks
Related to 1999
Tricks of my Trade
182
Paul Richards The Final Stretch card stretches wrapped in bill
Inspired byAlso published here Dec. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 4)
94
Dave Campbell The Grow More, Grow Less Card credit information
Inspired by
  • Peter Kane's "Elongated Lady"
 2004
The Dave Campbell Legacy
279
Arthur Trace Relative Transformation Spectator selects a random mini card, it grows into a poker sized card
 		2006
It's All Relative
19
Kevin Ho Long Division Card is "stretched" into long card, split into two, each being a selection
 		2008
Smooth Operations
14
Peter Duffie Stretch & Catch Joker is stretched to twice its length while out-jogged from deck, then it splits and finds a selection
Inspired by 2012
The Card Activist
9
Steve Beam Longing for the Selected Card selected card apparently found in deck, it becomes longer as it is pulled out, handling for the long card created by Tom Sellers & Harold Beaumont
Inspired by
  • "Long Card Comedy" (Tom Sellers, The Magic Want Yearbook, 1948-49)
  • "Stretching a Card" (Harold Beaumont, Marketed effect, 1952)
 2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10
48
Paul Richards The Final Stretch card stretches wrapped in bill
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
146
David Boothe Another Man's Treasure, Revisited
Inspired by
  • "Another Man's Treasure" (Don England, Kevin Kelly's Intermezzo)
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Dec. 2007
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
683